Senior Congress leader Nandi Yellaiah died of coronavirus at a hospital here on Saturday. He was six-term Lok Sabha and two-time Rajya Sabha member.He was 78-year-old and was admitted to the hospital on July 29.

He tested positive for Covid-19 and died while undergoing treatment. Nandi Yellaiah a Dalit leader who rose from the ranks of a party worker to a corporator of municipal corporation in Hyderabad to becoming Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha member.

He was in the forefront of the first phase of Telangana agitation in 1969 and is popularly known as “Dalitha Bandhavudu”.